How Flight covered Chuck Yeager’s supersonic success, 75 years ago

Chuck Yeager with Bell X-1

Source: FlightGlobal archive

To mark mid-October’s 75th anniversary of the first manned supersonic flight, we revisit our reporting from the time, when Cold War tensions rapidly propelled new fighter technologies.

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